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Synopsis:
"Nothing has been done if something remains to be done," Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest scientists of all times, used to say. Which of course means that a problem (at least a mathematical problem) has to be finally and comprehensively solved, else it is considered unsolved. Born [he son of a workman, Gebhard Gauss, and his wife Dorothea (nee Benze) in Brunswick in 1777, Carl Friedrich's talents became evident at an early age. In 1791 he was granted a sponsorship by the Duke of Brunswick, Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand.